The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-18
A BABY GIRLS FRANKS.
How She Wen SAe Hearts Of the Occupants
Of q RAILWAY Oar.

How She Wen TIE Hearts Of the Occupants
Of . Railway Oar.
There wHs q baby In the railway ear
the other day. 1t was not an unusual
child. but il had q decidedly bright
face and pretty ways. For the first
few miles she was very quiet. and her
blue eyes looked about in wonderment
for evidently'it was the little ones first
ride in the cars. Then, as she became
used to the roar and rumble, the baby
proclivities asserted themselves, and
she began 10 play With her fathers
mustache. At first the father and
mother we're the only parties inter-
ested. but soon syoung lady in an ad-
jaeent seat nudged her escort aad d.
rected his attention to the laughing
child. He looked UP. remarked that it
was a pretty baby and tried 70 look IN
concerned. but it was noticed that his
eyes wandered back 30 the spot occu-
pied by the happy family. and he com
menced 10 smile. The baby pulled the
hair of the old maid in front, who
turned around savagely and glared at
the father with look that plainly said:
"Nuisanoes should be left at home"
But she caught sight of the laughing
black eyes of the baby. and when she
turned back her face had lost the an
gular. strained look of disappointment,
and she seemed pleased about some
thing. Several others had become in
ter sted in the child by this time. bust
ness men and young clerks, old ladies
and girls. and when the baby hands
grasped the large silk hat Of her father
and placed it on her own head. il made
such a eomical picture that IN old gen
tleman across the way, unable 20 re-
strain himself. burst into a loud guf-
faw, and then looked sheepishly out Of
the window. as if ashamed to be caught
doing such an unmanly thing. Before
another FIVE minutes he was playing
peek-a-boo across the aisle with the
baby, asd every one was envying him.
The ubiquitous young man, ever on
the move, passed through, but he was
at loss to account for the frowns of
every body. He had failed 10 notice
the baby. which every one was now in
terested in. The brakeman looked in
from his post on the platform and
smiled. The paper boy found no Gus
tom till he had spoken TO the baby and
jingled his pocket of change for her
ediication. The conductor caught the
fever and chucked the little one under
the chin. while the old gentleman
across the aisle forgot to pass up his
ticket. so interested Was he in playing
peek-a-boo. The old maid in front re-
Taxed, and diving into her reticule un-
earthed brilliant red pippin and pre-
sented it bashfully to the little one,
who. in response, put her chubby arms
around the donors neck and pressed
her rosy little mouth 10 the old maids
cheek.
1t brought back a food of remem-
ORANGES to that withered heart, and a
handkerchief was seen TO brush first
this way and then that, as if to catch a
falling tear. The train sped on and
pulled into the station where the baby,
with her parents, was to leave the car.
A look of regret came over every face.
The old gentleman asked If he couldn't
kiss it Just once, the old maid returned
the caress she had received, and the
baby moved toward the door, shaking
a by-by over the shoulder of her papa,
to which every one responded, inelud-
ing the nevsboy. who emphasized his
farewell with wave of his hat The
passengers rushed 10 the side where the
baby got of. and watched till she
turned out Of sight at the other end OF
the station. shaking by-bys all the
time. They lapsed into silence.
They missed that baby, and not one
Of them would be unwilling to &C
it. The little ones pres
ence had let a rift of sunshine into
every heart, warm or cold. in that car
Business men had forgotten for a while
their schemes for the day, the girls had
omitted to follow up their train OF
thoughts abont that new dress and the
fellows had left off thoughts of base
ball. and looked into the future when
they would call sweet girl of their
"wife." and perhaps have
just such little piece of sunshine
playing on their knee. Every body
was better for the presence of that
baby, and its happy face was pictured
in many thoughts that day as men
pored over columns Of figures or
talked abstractedly of stocks and Sc
curities.-Ner6uryport Mass. Nesos.
Yankee Shrewdness.
A Northern shoe merchant set up q
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